During the [Barack] Obama presidency, the Dow doubled in real terms. What's more, its growth has been remarkably steady.

Rising inequality is a cultural and economic cancer on a lot of different levels.

[Ronald]Reagan and[George W.] Bush were far more radical than other presidents.

There's no liberal equivalent of Donald Trump.

The ability to focus on a single task for an extended period is a talent that’s underappreciated - especially by extroverts, who continue to exercise an unhealthy hegemony over most workplaces.

Smart hiring managers in the modern world should be asking, “How long can you concentrate on a task before you have to take a break?” I wonder how many of them do?

If you don’t want your followers to give up in disgust, your inspiration needs to be in the service of goals that are at least attainable.

The younger you are, the more likely you are to have grown up in a (mostly) lead-free environment, and that means you're less likely to have committed a felony or gotten sent to prison.

Because prison sentences in America tend to be long, de-incarceration lags falling crime rates by a fair amount, but eventually it does catch up.

Black crime rates fell more steeply than white crime rates, and now black incarceration is falling more steeply than white incarceration.

Of course the system can be changed. Why would I bother spending 14 years of my life blogging if I didn't believe that?

Step out from the crowd because it'll lead you nowhere..!

Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.

truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.

One of the reasons for putting yourself on the line, is that life is not simply treading water... I always felt that once you reach a certain point, you have to try and move ahead.

I love being outdoors - hiking, biking, and swimming.

I wish they made fajita cologne, because that stuff smells good. What's that you're wearing? That's sizzlin'!

The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.

Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.

Even if one's head were to be suddenly cut off, he should be able to do one more action with certainty.

I would rather train someone and lose them, than not train them and keep them